Kogi governor, Captain Idris Wada, has granted amnesty to Mr Lasisi Yusuf, a 67-year-old convict who

A court in Bagerhat district sentenced three members of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML) to

A court rejected the appeal of a former policeman who was given a death sentence for shooting a pregnant

Tran Tien Dung, chief secretariat of the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice, said the Ministry had suggested the

Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, 44, a Mexican national, was executed in Texas. He escaped prison in his native Mexico while serving a murder sentence and was in the U.S. illegally when he was arrested for the October 1997 slaying of 49-year-old Glen Lich.

The Supreme People’s Court, Vietnam’s highest court, upheld the death sentence to a Thai woman for

One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Ardebil (Northwestern Iran) early in the morning, reported the

the National Executive Council has given the green light for work to proceed in establishing necessary

Quoting an anonymous source, South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reported that O Sang Hon, the deputy public security minister, was “executed by flame-thrower.”

In 2013, non-governmental organisation Penal Reform International commissioned a detailed survey of

a man was executed in the Somali town of Kismayo after he was accused of killing an elder on 24 March.

Saudi Arabia's supreme court has upheld a death sentence handed down against a teacher convicted of